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A four-year-old budget CPU is outselling AMD's best gaming chip in some markets (techspot.com)

2026-08-12 | by Daniel Sims | tags: amd ryzen 5 5500, intel, ram shortages

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Grok Bot (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: grok bot, zendesk, workflow automation

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AMD highlights Ryzen 5 5500 briefly topping Amazon CPU best sellers, beating 9800X3D — $80 DDR4 CPU remains a top seller during memory crunch (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd, ryzen 5 5500, amazon cpu

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Benchmarking AMD's BC-250, offering Steam Machine-like performance at half the price — unlocking 40 CUs, eight Zen 2 cores on the repurposed PS5 APU (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd bc-250, steam machine, ps5 apu

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Get 32GB of DDR5 for $261 in this AM5 gaming bundle — $970 deal features Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB DDR5 RAM, a Gigabyte X870 motherboard, and free 240mm AIO (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Joe Shields | tags: ryzen 7 9800x3d, corsair ddr5-6000, gigabyte x870

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Walmart has slashed $600 off this RTX 5060-powered gaming laptop, now just $1,099 — get Gigabyte's 16-inch Aero X16 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: gigabyte, rtx 5060, amd ryzen ai 7

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Got an ASUS laptop? You might be sitting on a free Google AI Pro or Plus subscription (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: asus, google ai, rog laptops

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Acer Swift Go 16 AI (AMD Gorgon Point) Review: A balanced, affordable, big-screen portable (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Matt Safford | tags: acer, swift go 16 ai, amd ryzen ai 7

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Despite global turmoil, Gen Z researchers are not giving up (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-10 | by Rodrigues | tags: helmholtz-zentrum dresden, ion beam physics, quantum materials

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Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Vittoria Elliott | tags: census, citizenship, funding

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Forget cheap TVs, this upcoming Roku TV projector could be yours for less than $70 (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: aurzen, discount, launch

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Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Julie Bort | tags: citizens, openai, perm

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How the Trump administration is blocking the public’s right to protect the environment (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: trump administration, citizen suits, clean water act

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AMD doubles data center revenue year over year, but gaming revenue plunged by 31% — CEO Lisa Su says prices have 'weighed on' consumer demand but is 'optimistic' about client market (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd, ryzen, graphics cards

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AMD’s data center business is booming while gaming takes a backseat (theverge.com)

2026-08-04 | by Stevie Bonifield | tags: amd, data center, ryzen

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AMD’s datacenter business is booming while gaming takes a backseat (theverge.com)

2026-08-04 | by Stevie Bonifield | tags: amd, ryzen, data center

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Samsung follows LG in killing Smart TV apps that rent out your internet (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: samsung, tizen, bright data

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Samsung’s discounted smart monitor is $349.99, its lowest price yet (theverge.com)

2026-08-03 | by Brad Bourque | tags: samsung, m80f, tizen

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Top Consulting Group PwC Caught Using AI on “Thought Leadership” Report About AI, Resulting in Corporate Document Filled With Bizarre Hallucinations (futurism.com)

2026-08-03 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: pwc, ai hallucinations, citizen pulse

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Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: trump, citizen suit provisions, clean air act

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Grab 32GB of Corsair DDR5 for an effective $230 right now in this 9950X3D combo deal —Newegg RAM bundle ships with 16-core AMD X3D chip alongside an MSI X870E board and a free 240mm cooler for $1,308 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-03 | by Ben Stockton | tags: amd ryzen 9 9950x3d, corsair vengeance ddr5, msi x870e

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AMD's upcoming Zen 6 processors could fix microstutters and improve 1% lows in games — Next-gen CPUs tipped to feature per-core optimizations for thermal and power budgets (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd zen 6, ryzen 10000, cpuc performance control

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der8auer tests PC chimney effect, dropping CPU temps by 19°C with a 110cm 3D-printed tower (techspot.com)

2026-08-02 | by Zo Ahmed | tags: pc chimney effect, der8auer, ryzen 7 9800x3d

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AMD's new Zen 6 chips will have a low-power core built from five different generations of Zen (techspot.com)

2026-08-02 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: amd zen 6, amd zen 5, amd zen 4

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Score the ultimate AMD AM4 starter pack with a six-core CPU and 16GB RAM for only $280 — kickstart your next PC build with $138 in savings (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-01 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: amd, ryzen 5 5500, b550m motherboard

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The 5 laptop features worth spending extra on (and 3 that are mostly hype) (zdnet.com)

2026-08-01 | by Cesar Cadenas | tags: ram, asus zenbook, hp omnibook

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Alienware 15 vs. LOQ Essential 15: I compared both budget gaming laptops - it was close (zdnet.com)

2026-08-01 | by Kyle Kucharski | tags: alienware, lenovo, nvidia

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30 years of CPUs at Tom’s Hardware — looking back on three decades of processors, from the Pentium II to Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd, intel, ryzen

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Blueberry recall expands to more products sold at Publix as E. coli outbreak hospitalizes 4 people (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: blueberry, publix, e. coli

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Single-DIMM DDR5 gaming works better than you probably think — one DDR5 DIMM beats dual-channel DDR4 RAM, AMD's 3D V-Cache chips drop less than 3% with single stick (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jake Roach | tags: ddr5, amd ryzen 7 9800x3d, tom's hardware